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I wonder how much it costs them to maintain this service.
by elcomet 7y ago
I wonder how much it costs them to maintain this service.
- kenforthewin 7y agoThe article mentions Digital Ocean provides the infrastructure so it seems the only cost is dev time. It reads almost like a promotional for DO with all of their services mentioned, which is probably why they support it to begin with.
- emilfihlman 7y agoI though about that, too, but that's not any different from using AWS specific services. I actually now realized why they use bloody annoying different names: it's free marketing when someone writes about how they implemented stuff instead of having a generic name.
- robocat 7y agoDifferent names are alto useful for negatives. Someone writing about an issue with their CDN is far less useful than saying the issue occurs with Akamai. In general I like to see brand signals: if someone I respect mentions that they use Cloudflare, that is useful information, even without further details. Unsolicited mentions are usually useful, it's just sneaky paid advertising is bad.
- emilfihlman 7y ago>it's just sneaky paid advertising is bad. Not possible to detect under these circumstances, then.
- kingkool68 7y agoI run https://dummyimage.com https://dummyimage.com, the first placeholder image service which has been online since 2007. I use a 1GB, 1vCPU instance from DreamCompute costing $6.00 per month. That's it. To be fair dummyimage.com doesn't do any sort of image reading or resizing. Source doe at https://github.com/kingkool68/dummyimage https://github.com/kingkool68/dummyimage
- haasted 7y agoWhat kind of traffic does your service attract?